Microsoft was caught testing way too many ads on its Bing Search results page. I saw 9 ads and only two organic/free listings on the page for a query on [garage door repair].
I’m sure both people who use Bing are furious
Two of the ads are for the same company, and that company is also one of the two organic results.
Way to confuse adblock users
This is what Google and Amazon already do, why are they singling out Bing?
Use an advertisement blocker on either site and the entire experience seems foreign.
Satya the creep testing boundaries
I just turned off my adblocker and can’t get a single ad on Bing no matter what I try. The link there has zero ads for me.
I did look at the article, and in my opinion those aren’t “ads”, but I don’t even get those either anyway.
Do people actually use Bing??? Apart from the ms reward
It’s a lot better nowadays than Google, so I do, yeah.
It also has zero ads for me (turned off my adblocker to check).
duckduckgo is mostly based on bing results so you could try that too.
I use its image search to study human anatomy.
What a waste of bandwidth, energy and time.
Ew.
Next up they might test making the whole first page for ads, and the pages after that for search results.
Hell, why even have organic search results at all? Just rank results by how much each site owner is willing to
bribepay. A protection racket for the 21st century.“That’s a nice website you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if it got no visitors.”
This is Bing we’re talking about, the website owner may not even notice.
well you’d think at some point people would stop using their bullshit search engine.
